Avarice In Audio – Anthracite Nights EP (Alfa Matrix 2016)

29Aug

Taken from Avarice In Audio’s successful second album “Apollo & Dionysus”,here comes the final single from this album: “Anthracite Nights”. Avarice In Audio have brought the thunder with this song, and shown to never rest on their laurels. Always working on new content, and always delivering diverse but thought-provoking material each and every time.

The sonic palette varies from harsh aggro tech to more cheerful synth pop, to brooding atmosphere and club bangers, “Anthracite Nights” has a solid pedigree behind it and serves as a fitting send off to the “Apollo & Dionysus” era. The artwork, commissioned by premier artist Tomoki Hayasaka/Sheerheart Design shows a new depth of visual creativity, closing off the orb design used for every prior AIA E.P release. With a new dawn comes new visual and sonic aesthetic.

Finally combined with an original exclusive track “The Temptation & Expulsion”, an orchestral closer for the era of the first two Avarice In Audio albums, the triumvirate are ready to move forward and record their third album, while working on live shows.

The band's first lineup featured English guitarist "Mahavishnu" John McLaughlin, Panamanian drummer Billy Cobham, Irish bassist Rick Laird, Czechoslovakian keyboardist Jan Hammer, and American violinist Jerry Goodman. McLaughlin had worked with Cobham and Goodman on his third solo album My Goal's Beyond (1971), and asked Cobham to become […]

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